Welcome to the AAHSL web site. AAHSL seeks to improve academic health sciences libraries in the United States and Canada by assessing, advancing, strengthening, leading and reframing their roles in patient care, research and teaching. Our web site features the work of the association in reaching our goals. Each month we Spotlight a member library to demonstrate how academic health sciences libraries are advancing their roles in education, research and patient care.

News Feed

May 1, 2008

Web Site Update

Several new items are posted to the AAHSL web site:

--  A new Spotlight is now posted highlighting the services and collections of the Drexel University Health Sciences Libraries.

--  A new testimonial appears on the Matheson-Cooper Anniversary page.  Here, you will see the Matheson-Cooper Report described as "the First Roadmap to the Clinical Translational Science  Awards" by Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., President and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

--  AAHSL will support the web presence of LiME, Librarians in Medical Education.  While planning is underway for LiME's web content, LiME plans on meeting at the upcoming MLA annual meeting.  To learn more about LiME and its regional and national initiative, please attend the national LiME meeting at MLA in Chicago on Monday, May 19 from 8:00-9:00 AM in the Toronto Room at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

-- President Linda Watson's latest report is posted under About > Presidential Messages.

Congratulations to the latest AAHSL Leadership Scholarship recipients:

--Doreen R. Bradley, Liaison Services Coordinator, Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan, for the 2008 ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians;

--Katherine V. Chew, Associate Director for Collections, Research and Access Services, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Minnesota, for the 2008 ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians;

--Jane Fama, Associate Director, Public Desk and User Services, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, for the 2008 ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians;

--Douglas L. Varner, Associate Director/Chief Biomedical Informationist, Dahlgren Memorial Library, Georgetown University Medical Center, for the 2008 AAMC GIR Leadership Institute;

--Frances M. Yarger, Assistant Director Computing Services, Health Science Library System, University of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, for the 2008 AAMC GIR Leadership Institute.

AAHSL Leadership Scholarships support the development of leadership skills  for persons with an interest in leading academic health sciences libraries. Since 2003, 33 scholarships have been awarded for attendance at educational programs or for individually designed learning experiences.

-- James Shedlock, Northwestern University

May 2008

Drexel University Health Sciences Libraries

Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) was created by the 1982 merger of Hahnemann Medical College and Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. These institutions were two of the earliest medical colleges in the United States -- established in 1848 and 1850 respectively -- and Woman’s was the very first medical school for women in the nation. With two locations in Philadelphia, the combined Health Sciences Libraries serve over 7000 students, faculty, staff and residents both on our campuses and remotely.

The Library that serves DUCOM is located on the Queen Lane Campus—five miles from downtown Philadelphia.

The Hahnemann Library, in Center City Philadelphia, has collections geared to the needs of Drexel’s School of Public Health and College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Although we have over 500,000 physical visits to the libraries each year, our students live and work all over the world. The library’s website is their primary portal to services and materials. Our policy of sharing all licensed electronic resources with the University Library and many resources with our Law Library allows the Health Sciences Libraries to offer our users over 500 databases, 80,000 e-books and 21,000 journals, a great advantage in today’s interdisciplinary academic environment.

Drexel has often been in the vanguard in implementing technology: we were the first major university to operate a fully wireless campus and the Libraries among the first to migrate to a completely electronic journal collection beginning in 1998. In that spirit, our Libraries have a presence in the virtual world of Second Life at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/125/175/25

Recent improvements to the physical plant included converting stack space into collaborative study rooms and a classroom as well as the installation of café furniture in a lounge area. We hope you’ll visit our recently updated website for more information about our programs and services.

http://www.library.drexel.edu/healthsciences/